Any of you with children have undoubtedly had to share your bed with them on occasion. Well, I get to do this every Friday night. I created this "monster" myself in the fall when my daughter was wanting to argue about going to bed. (She is my child that REALLY needs her sleep!) Anyhow, I told her that if she went to bed each night without a fuss that on Friday she could sleep in our bed with us. This did the trick! She rarely, if ever comments on what time she goes to bed (which is about 7:00 on a school night). I never get argument about it, at all. Consequently, she is in our bed every Friday night. Somehow though, this carried over to my son, so now our Friday nights consist of cuddling in the bed while watching Animal Planet until about 9:00 when they finally doze off (then I put on Friday Night Lights!) Although we have a king size bed, it is a little tight, and my husband now sleeps on the couch on Friday nights. The past couple of weeks my daughter's cat has joined the fun as well. (Thankfully, our Rottie can jump up that high, or I'm sure she'd try to join us.) It's amazing that even in a king size bed we all wind up on one half of the bed. Therefore, it is not the most restful night sleep, and I wake up with aches all over, but . . . .
I would not trade these Friday night memories for the world!!!
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My kids end up in my bed more nights than I can count. I have a king size bed but they are teenagers... lol. I have NO room!
On weekends we'll pop in a movie and cuddle up until I fall asleep and then they get up to play on their Wii :)
Thanks for the picture comment! We love our house and we got a serious deal. The people who owned it (no kids)were out of the house and had moved a year before. They were desperate and came down $20,000. They took great care of the house (it was built in 2000). I don't have any matching furniture and the boys stuff is hand-me-down. The stuff in our living room is hand-me-down, too and will probably stay that way until they leave for college...
talk to ya soon!
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